- Protects Your Reputation:
- When you handle the data of your employees, customers, or clients securely, you not only protect their privacy but also enhance your company’s reputation. Avoiding data leakage news helps save time and money and boosts your reputation. This makes your business more trustworthy to potential new clients and employees.
- Protects Against Insider Threats:
- While endpoint protection software primarily tackles external cyber threats, DLP safeguards processes within your organization. Your data is handled daily by numerous employees. It’s not always easy to determine whether their actions are secure at every moment. Having a DLP solution prevents them from making incorrect decisions and inadvertently jeopardizing data security. Additionally, a DLP solution prevents employees from intentionally harming your business, such as selling customer data to competitors.
- Educates Employees:
- Some DLP providers offer interactive responses to insecure activities. For example, if an employee attempts to take a screenshot of a document containing sensitive data, the DLP solution not only blocks the action but also guides the employee through a popup that explains the potential risks of the blocked activity and offers a more secure alternative.
- Helps Maintain Communication with Your Data:
- Implementing a DLP solution starts with data flow discovery, providing an overview of where all sensitive or confidential data is created, stored, and transferred within and outside the company. This helps analyze internal risks and understand real-time activities. Sensitive data is categorized into personal, financial, health, etc. The next step involves applying DLP policies and rules to protect sensitive data from leaks.
- Enhances Security for Hybrid Work:
- With the pandemic, remote or hybrid work models have become more prevalent and are likely to remain. However, working remotely or from home can be less secure than working in an office. Employees may need to share more information through online communication channels and connect to less monitored general or home networks. A DLP solution monitors data handling in these situations and helps prevent potential issues.
How to Choose the Right Data Loss Prevention Solution: To find the right solution for your business, ask yourself and DLP vendors the following 14 questions:
- Does the software align with my goals and specific potential risks?
- Do I need an on-premises DLP solution or should I opt for SaaS DLP?
- On which operational systems does the solution perform best?
- Is the software suitable for a company of my size?
- Does DLP cover all critical data channels and operating systems used in my company?
- Is it ready for environments where users work from home or remotely?
- Does it offer both content-based and context-based data classification?
- Does it have OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for detecting and classifying sensitive data in scanned documents and images?
- Can the solution protect temporary offline devices?
- Does DLP protect data on endpoint devices or at the network level?
- Will I need additional staff for data protection? How many staff members are required?
- What is the impact on the performance of protected devices?
- Will I need to purchase additional servers (hardware) to implement the DLP solution?
- How quickly can the solution be deployed?
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